Belated February Dispatch
Historic image of Mather available on the Marlboro College Alumni Association Flickr stream.
February greetings from the Alumni Council!
We are glad to share that we have had a fruitful first meeting with our new council member, Amy Domrad Tudor ‘99, in attendance. In case you missed our last message, in December we accepted the resignation of council member Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina ‘72, whose experience, warmth, wit, and pragmatism will be missed in our meetings, and, per council procedures offered the seat to the person who had the next highest number of votes in our most recent election. We were so pleased to welcome Amy, who brings valuable experience and ideas to the council.
As you know, the Marlboro Music Festival, which now owns the campus on Potash Hill, is committed and keen to be in conversation with a variety of stakeholders on the question of the campus and its future use. Early this month, our resources subgroup, CJ Churchill, Mark Genszler, and Bess Poehlmann, met with Ann Garth, a consultant for TDC, the company the Marlboro Music Festival has hired to undertake these conversations. They had a positive preliminary conversation during which they communicated their sense of the meaning the campus has for alumni and some of the desires and ideas we have heard from you, our members–in conversation, by email, on our Facebook page, and elsewhere. Please be reminded that if you have specific ideas for the campus, you can also send them directly to the Festival here. We are really glad to be involved as a body representing Marlboro College alumni and look forward to more conversations.
This month, we also bring you an update from the Archives Committee about their important work:
Since the announcement of the closing of the college, the Archives Committee has worked to secure a home for the school’s archives in Vermont at the University of Vermont; brought you letters and a memoir from the College’s longest serving president, Tom Ragle; and begun an oral history project that we hope to expand to more faculty and staff. The oral history project is an undertaking that continues to require considerable planning and time by many different parties as we endeavor to produce results we can all feel proud of. Currently we have completed Tom Ragle’s interview, and we hope to complete two additional ones with Geraldine Pittman de Battle and Jerry Levy. They will be made available on the website when they are completed.
We have also begun to document the location of all known archives. This list will evolve and expand, but we want it to be accessible for independent researchers, interested alumni, and others. We at Archives have worked to develop a foundation for honoring our history.
Ultimately, we Marlboro alumni, former Marlboro staff, Marlboro faculty, and residents of Marlboro Town, as well as current students and faculty of the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies Institute at Emerson College, are all its stewards.
The Marlboro College Alumni Association Archives Committee
marlborocollegearchives@gmail.com
Archives Committee members are
Bess Poehlmann ‘92
Dan Toomey ‘79
Pamela Nye ‘93
Heather Carter ‘02
As always, please be in touch with us! You can contact us at info@marlborocollegealumniassociation.com, and you can read our meeting minutes to see what we have been up to.
Sincerely,
CJ Churchill, 1991
Dagmawi Iyasu Eminetu, 1998
Mark Genszler, 1995
Melanie Knight Gottlieb, 2002
Kate Hollander, 2002
Pamela Witte Nye, 1993
Bess Poehlmann, 1992
Ellie Roark, 2012
Amy Domrad Tudor, 1999